The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-20
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teristic gestures. TIL. G.
4 VERY GREAT HISTORIAN.
| Cesare Cautu and his Most Importaat Works Q.
DUBLIN, Nov. 4.--Two semi-monthly NUM-
bers Just received OF the new edition Of Cesare
Cantls Universal History" revised and COM
pleted by the venerable author. now in his
| seth year, bring to mind q conversation we
had with him in Milan in February. 1884, The
mention OF New York brought the great his
torian to speak OF Count Maroncelli. who with
Silvio Pellico. had been carried or to the for
| tress Of Spielberg by the Austrian Government
for tho same political offences which made the
| Austrian police. some years later. cast Cesare
CantH into prison. and subject him, after
| twelve months OF incarceration, to the most
relentless and unceasing persecution.
Mrs. White delighted our illustrious visitor
by telling him that on her coming, a BRIDE to
live in New York in the autumn Of 1884. she
and her husband met Count Maroncelll at the
house Of the celebrated Dr. MacNevin. who
had invitd a select party to meet them. The
Count" she said to me. afterward. charmed
| US then, rs he did all who had the privilege of
| hearing him. His vivid narrative OF the suffer-
| ings endured in prison by Silvio Pellico and
himself moved our deepest sympathy and
| excited our admiration for the sufferers. I
remember the mingled dignity and simplicity
Of the Counts bearing in our republican cir
cles. and what delight he seemed to take in tho
society OF tho heightened New Workers OF that
day. Many must be yet alive who remember
| those evenings in DIR. MacNevins home"
| CantN. who has lonR survived the extinction
Of Austrian rule in northern Italy has. by q
| singular change Of fortune. been appointed
| Project OF the Archives In Milan. which con-
| tain. among so many other documents never
intended for publicity. the very secret instruc-
lions given to the police to hound, and harass.
and hunt him down whithersoever he went,
together with tho reports on his character.
| connections, and writings furnished to the
Austrian Government by their secret agents.
| When his editors asked him. six years ago.
to undertake complete revision OF his gigan-
tic work. the Universal History" he wrote to
me to say how little probability there was that
he could have strength and life enough to
carry 1t out. He had conceived, while In the
solitude OF his Austrian prison. the plan OF this
wonderful history and had begun to execute
1t soon after his release, and amid the thou
sand obstacles which the ever-watchful au-
thorlties created for him. He could not find in
Lombardy or Venetia single publisher will
ing to print his work. He took the first volume
it in monthly parts It had marvellous sue
cess. and volume after volume was issued and
translated into the principal languages OF Con-
haze ds SEQ cred man
deficiency in my ny work i and shall have 70 re-
cast all that relates to ancient history"
monthly numbers as they have appeared down
to the thirteenth century and the reign o. the
amazed at the vast learning OF tho historian. at
that unique faculty Of analysis and colcentr,,;
timR nrinpiDIAS
and sciences. and has given them to us in
thes9 pregnant pages in language which
narrative down to the establishment Of Chris
vanced age made his editors as well as his
countless friends fear that he might net 1t, be
requested. therefore. that no should, put in
proper form that last portion OF his historical
labors embraced M tS IN the two works supple.
Storia ii .Cento Ann. and his Siorid di Trent
Ami, which narrate the events and various
This enables the historian to give us COM
mainly as the concluding portion Of his labor.
for the last century ant hall mhe peoples
as the countries and Municipalities OF Europe,
are described with mastery hand. Political
and social systems religious m9 G", 81 ne
cation and theory, all stand forth clearly
grouped In their Proper relations sry
human generations through the ages demon
strates convncngly the authors central idea.
that man. under the guidance Of Providence.
Is continually progressing toward what is best.
Cantns account Of the rise OF the United States
His innate love Of genuine religious and poiti-
cal liberty gives him q ready sympathy for US
and our institutions. But his experienced
him to discuss the perils which threaten our
A man who has labored and suffered so much
help feeling for poor ireland, whose struggles
and throes he watches with loving eyes. In
Part H. Which h nh has st me ana Which
ligious and social troubles that followed my
eyes fell (paRe 1871 on tho following paragraph:
existence did not, / bsiieve. destroy so many
TO Protestantize Ireland. Neither the inqusi.
ternai flame OF the human will blazes forth
when repressed. and Is kept alive by the effort
made to extingush It,"
thentic records OF the InQuisilion any prison
treatment more barbarous than that which
they are now intlicting on the heroic william
zeal offence. and what deem most noble act
OF civic virtue-I should feel indebted to my
and political fanatcism which burned in the
breast OF Cromwell and that other Baiour still
live in the bosoms OF Lord Salisbury and his
England In 1887 is beginning TO know and to
spirit which governed Ireland in 1887, and
which Dublin Castl" has so skiltuliy cherished
But, while famishsd and maddened landlord
ism Is thus resortinR TO such iatal eNtremities,
and . well-organzed and disciplined people
are knit together In closer unity and In inyin-
their leaders, ] find that the great work q ma
ardor that knows OF no tagging. IriBhmen feel